{"title":"Self-Powered Extensible S-SSHI Based on RC Differential Circuit for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting","authors":"Yuyao Qi, Yinshui Xia","doi":"10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842926","url":null,"abstract":"At present, most piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) interface circuits are non-extensible only a single piezoelectric transducer (PZT) can be used or extensible at the expense of power consumption, component cost and volume. However, at a lower cost, the simultaneous energy harvesting by multiple PZTs under the same vibration source can more effectively increase the electrical energy supplied to the load. Hence, a self-powered extensible serial synchronized switch harvesting on inductor interface circuit based on RC differential circuit (SPEDS-SSHI) for piezoelectric energy harvesting is proposed in this article. It is implemented by reducing the number of switches required for the single piezoelectric unit and improving the reuse of components. The theoretical simulation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed circuit. The results show that the SPEDS-SSHI circuit can simultaneously harvest energy from multiple PZTs with any phase difference. The maximum harvested power of the proposed circuit for single PZT is 4.6 times that of the SEH circuit.","PeriodicalId":303656,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123681451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Bracciale, P. Loreti, E. Raso, Giuseppe Bianchi, P. Gallo, E. R. Sanseverino
{"title":"A Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Solution to Support Demand Response in Energy Trading","authors":"L. Bracciale, P. Loreti, E. Raso, Giuseppe Bianchi, P. Gallo, E. R. Sanseverino","doi":"10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9843108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9843108","url":null,"abstract":"Demand response consists in the modification of energy consumption by end users to attain specific effects on the electrical grid, namely reduce congestion and optimize the usage of renewable energy. When implemented with blockchain, demand response poses important privacy concerns since it generally needs the publication of sensitive information about users regarding their energy consumption. In this work, we devise a system to preserve privacy in such a scenario by using Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) algorithms and a blockchain-based architecture with the goal of achieving both accountability and privacy.","PeriodicalId":303656,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)","volume":"229 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121594340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haytham Hijazi, R. Couceiro, J. Castelhano, José Cruz, Miguel Castelo‐Branco, P. de Carvalho, H. Madeira
{"title":"Intelligent Biofeedback Comprehension Assessment: Theory, Research, and Tools","authors":"Haytham Hijazi, R. Couceiro, J. Castelhano, José Cruz, Miguel Castelo‐Branco, P. de Carvalho, H. Madeira","doi":"10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9843030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9843030","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper describes the use of nonintrusive biofeedback sensors (e.g., ECG) and eye-tracker to study the cognitive load (CL) associated with two mental tasks: a) content reading and comprehension b) code review. The paper addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the comprehension assessment included in content reading (for understanding) and code review evaluation using biofeedback sensors and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Moreover, it demonstrates the current research directions that the authors developed in evaluating these two tasks. Finally, the paper presents the design of one of the tools being developed to use biofeedback sensors and AI to evaluate the code review quality by assessing the code reviewer's comprehension and engagement level.","PeriodicalId":303656,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121610563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finite Set Model Predictive Control of Three Phase 2L-VSC for Grid Connected Photovoltaic System","authors":"M. Tebaa, M. Ouassaid","doi":"10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842951","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a high-performance model predictive current control of a three phase two level voltage source converter 2L-VSC supplied by a photovoltaic power generation with a long horizon control. An LCL filter is designed between the inverter and the grid to minimize the current distortion injected into the grid. The aim is to improve the performance of the proposed system by minimizing the THD and switching frequency which leads to reduce losses and optimize the quality of the power injected. The MATLAB/Simulink environment is used to simulate and verify the performance of the system using the proposed control technique. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed FCS-MPC strategy can effectively improve the quality of the grid connection and also reduce switching losses. Furthermore, a comparative study proves the supremacy of the proposed FCS-MPC over the PI control, and its compliance with the basis of IEE Std 519–2014.","PeriodicalId":303656,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121830053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ghanim Y Gh S AlOmani, Abdulsamad D S Darwesh, Shehab A J M AlSennei, Husain A M A Buabbas, Abdulmohsen F M A AlGhareeb, Hossam O. Ahmed
{"title":"Covid-19 Symptoms Monitoring Sensor Network for Isolation Rooms at Hospitals","authors":"Ghanim Y Gh S AlOmani, Abdulsamad D S Darwesh, Shehab A J M AlSennei, Husain A M A Buabbas, Abdulmohsen F M A AlGhareeb, Hossam O. Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9843095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9843095","url":null,"abstract":"Since the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic has had a significant impact on all the countries throughout the world. The number of the medical staff at hospitals was very limited. Thus, it was so risky for medical staff to have direct contact with that enormous number of Covid-19 patients, especially with those who were suffering from severe Covid-19 symptoms and should be isolated in quarantine isolation rooms. The world doesn’t know to which extent the next pandemic could be dangerous. Therefore, we proposed an EHealth system that will be suitable to address this issue by minimizing any direct interactions between medical staff and patients, who are suffering from either Covid-19 or any similar potentially life-threatening infections. The proposed solution is consisting of two subsystems. The first subsystem is related to the incessant aggregation process of all the vital sensory data needed to fully track the health status of each patient in isolation rooms using the proposed Patient Monitoring Unit (PMU). The second stage is responsible for gathering all these health status information using the Hospital Central Monitoring Server Unit (HCMSU) within a hospital, which then can be displayed for the medical staff to fully track all the patients’ data readings over a secured ethernet connection. Moreover, the HCMSU is responsible for filtering the received patients’ status data and transmitting only the necessary information to server Covid-19 databases at the Ministry of Health (MoH). The prototype of both the PMU and the HCMSU has been tested and verified.","PeriodicalId":303656,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124968916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vu Nguyen, Juan A. Cabrera, J. Acevedo, Christian Scheunert, Giang T. Nguyen, F. Fitzek
{"title":"A Good Horse Only Jumps as High as Needed: Multi-Field Fulcrum Codes for Heterogeneous Decoders","authors":"Vu Nguyen, Juan A. Cabrera, J. Acevedo, Christian Scheunert, Giang T. Nguyen, F. Fitzek","doi":"10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9843027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9843027","url":null,"abstract":"For timely monitoring and effective decision making, the Internet of Things (IoT) requires reliable communications over the unreliable Internet, which is a very challenging task. FEC, such as RLNC and its variants, design coding schemes for a pre-defined set of devices that allow trading computation to achieve higher reliability with reasonable overhead and reduced latency. That, however, is ineffective for an IoT environment when devices are with diverse computing power. This paper introduces Multi-Field Fulcrum Network Coding (MF-FNC), allowing decoders of three different computation profiles to achieve high decoding probability. Simultaneously, our proposed MF-FNC reduces the computation complexity by up to 83%.","PeriodicalId":303656,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131937166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beam-switching Circularly Polarized Antenna Array for Cold-chain Tracking RFID Applications","authors":"Zixuan Huang","doi":"10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842882","url":null,"abstract":"The existence of blind spots in complex multipath environments such as the cold-chain of vaccine transportation is one of the main problems in applying the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system. To overcome this issue, a low-cost beam-switching antenna array for Ultra High Frequency (UHF) RFID was proposed in this letter, which can significantly lower the number of blind spots and improve the detection rate. Firstly, a low-cost circularly polarized (CP) antenna element is designed with compact size, wide impedance and axial ratio (AR) bandwidths. Then, an array makes use of orientation diversity and spatial diversity is designed with five switchable radiation beams. A simple, low-lost but effective feeding network is designed to avoid usage of phase shifters or power dividers, making the design economically efficient. Finally, numerical optimizations and experimental demonstrations are performed to investigate the performances of the proposed antenna array and good agreements are obtained. The measured results demonstrate that the presented beam-switching antenna array is very suitable for RFID applications.","PeriodicalId":303656,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131791532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chiara Barà, R. Pernice, Laura Sparacino, Y. Antonacci, M. Javorka, L. Faes
{"title":"Analysis of Cardiac Pulse Arrival Time Series at Rest and during Physiological Stress","authors":"Chiara Barà, R. Pernice, Laura Sparacino, Y. Antonacci, M. Javorka, L. Faes","doi":"10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842948","url":null,"abstract":"The study of cardiovascular dynamics is pivotal in the prevention and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases. Pulse Arrival Time (PAT) series contain information concerning not only the dynamics of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), but of all the systems involved in the regulation of cardiovascular homeostasis. This study aims to highlight how indexes extracted from PAT series in time-, frequency- and information-domain allow to discriminate among different physiological conditions. Analyses were carried out on 76 young healthy subjects, at rest and during orthostatic or mental stress. Our results show that PAT indexes vary according to the ANS condition, and may thus be useful parameters for the classification of physiological stress.","PeriodicalId":303656,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128394365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fuzzy Controlled Pitch Angle in a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator Type Wind Energy Conversion System","authors":"Demsew Mitiku Teferra, L. Ngoo, G. Nyakoe","doi":"10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9843136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9843136","url":null,"abstract":"Controlling technique of the pitch angle is an efficient mechanism to control the mechanical torque of the wind turbine system during a strong wind beyond the rated operating wind speed of the turbine. To control the pitch angle, we have to choose generator’s electrical power, rotor speed, wind speed, and the turbine power coefficient as control parameters. In this article, a pitch angle controller based on fuzzy logic is introduced using the PMSG power as a control variable and wind speed as a sensitivity parameter to improve the control performance of the controller. The fuzzy logic controller is designed and its effectiveness is compared to the PI controller and fixed pitch angle control mechanisms. The simulation result shows that the fuzzy logic pitch angle controller has superior performance at various operation conditions when it was compared to the PI and fixed angle pitch control mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":303656,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131658678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Pau, Alessandro Carra, Marco Garzola, L. Falaschetti, C. Turchetti
{"title":"Complexity bounded classification of fish-eye distorted objects with micro-controllers","authors":"D. Pau, Alessandro Carra, Marco Garzola, L. Falaschetti, C. Turchetti","doi":"10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842897","url":null,"abstract":"Since 2019, tiny machine learning has imposed itself everywhere as an innovative technology trend deployed at the edge and has been pervasive in many IoT applications. One interesting, addressed by this work, is related to the welfare of the laboratory animals that could be preserved by acquiring and classifying some image data to monitor object’s presence in their cages. For example mice and rats activities such as drinking and eating can be indicators of their state of health. In that context, $mu$BottleNet has been developed to classify the presence, or the absence of the water bottle, while $mu$FoodNet to classify the level of the food into the feeder. Those neural networks (NNs) achieved 99.8% accuracy. At our best knowledge, no datasets were available to support this study and therefore we built three image datasets to train the neural networks on both Bottle and Food objects. From image capture to the inferences execution, the tasks have been carried out by STM32L4 (ultra-low-power that consumes 120 $mu$A/MHz) and STM32H7 micro controller units (MCUs). Both NNs have been designed to fit into constrained MCU resources. Special attention has been given to the on-chip memory occupation to ensure the RAM footprint was 39.44 KBytes. To evaluate and test on the field the performances of these models (and against to the MobileNetV2 one), a graphical user interface (GUI), has been developed, capable of rendering, the validation and test results of inference runs on the MCUs. K-fold cross validation has been run and the resulting performances of the two NNs were compared to the MobileNetV2 confirming that the $mu$BottleNet and the $mu$FoodNet reached and exceeded the accuracy achieved by a more complex NN architecture.","PeriodicalId":303656,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133787911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}